Heinz Kapelle

Early in 1934, Kapelle was arrested for the first time and sentenced to two years' imprisonment on 20 September 1934 by the Berliner Kammergericht for "conspiracy to commit high treason".

He in effect led an illegal youth resistance group of about 60 members against the Nazis.

The leaflets that he wrote he sometimes even distributed himself, by scattering them in the streets of Berlin's working-class neighbourhoods at night from his motorcycle.

The Volksgerichtshof sentenced Heinz Kapelle to death on 21 February 1941 for "furthering the enemy's cause and conspiracy to commit high treason".

A street in the Berlin neighbourhood Prenzlauer Berg is named Heinz-Kapelle-Straße in his honour.